I have often wondered if the rules of music, like many of those for Italian grammar, came after the fact, based on common usage that sounds good.
Leonard -----Original Message----- From: Tristan von Neumann <tristanvonneum...@gmx.de> To: lutelist Net <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Thu, Jul 26, 2018 2:44 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: chord names Musicians and Music Theorists are rarely one and the same person :) It is not necessary to name or classify anything while making music - Music Theory is mostly after the fact. Theory is taught, but novelties appear regardless - see Monteverdi and Artusi. Am 26.07.2018 um 19:11 schrieb Leonard Williams: > How would musicians like Dowland or Johnson have named their > chords? Were they thinking in chord progressions, modalities, > incidental chords arising in polyphonic cadences? I guess this is a > question of music theory evolution. > Leonard > > -----Original Message----- > From: Leonard Williams <[1]arc...@verizon.net> > To: lute <[2]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> > Sent: Wed, Jul 25, 2018 8:54 am > Subject: [LUTE] chord names > As chordal music (as opposed to polyphonic) became more prevalent, > and many modes became history, how were chords named? G maj, A min, > ...? Tonic, dominant, etc? When did this start? > Just curious. > Regards, > Leonard Williams > -- > To get on or off this list see list information at > [1][3]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- > > References > > 1. [4]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- References 1. mailto:arc...@verizon.net 2. mailto:lute@cs.dartmouth.edu 3. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html 4. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
